Telepresent Storm: Rita for iPads, historical weather data, and projected real-time graphical score (2013) - 7'

PROGRAM NOTE:

Time travel back to 2005 during Hurricane Rita’s massive show of grandeur and destruction. The weather data in Telepresent Storm: Rita connects the visual and auditory experience with the historical energy of Hurricane Rita. When I perform the piece, I feed Rita’s historical weather data through software to create a real-time graphical score which I then interpret live, using iPads. As a performer, I use two iPads to interpret the graphical score by freely assigning sound, harmony rhythm, melody, and growth to the available weather parameters.

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PERFORMANCES

• Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation, Westminter Choir College of Rider University, April 2016.
• Electronics Music Midwest, Kansas City Community College, November 2015.
• International Computer Music Conference, North Texas University, Denton, Texas, September 2015.
• Sounds, Images, and Data Conference, New York University, July 2015.
• NYCEMF 2015, New York City, June 2015.
• Finalist for the Slingshot Festival Data Perceptualization Competition, Athens, Georgia, March 2015
• Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada, August 2014.
• TransX Transmission Art Symposium, Toronto, Canada, May 2014.
•  Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Conference, 2014, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2014.
• Circuit Bridges Concert, Gallery MC in New York City, May 2014.
• 2014 Bowling Green State University Graduate Student Conference, March 2014.
• Threshold 2014 Electronic Music Festival, Oberlin Conservatory, February 2014.
• Premiere: Bowling Green State University Student Composition Concert, December 2013.